E-mu Vintage Keys

The Vintage Keys is a digital rackmount synthesizer that emulates the
sounds of classic vintage synths. For an early 1990’s ROMpler, this sound module
was compact and actually sounded really good, loaded with good samples of vintage synth sounds. Just like the
classics it has Portamento, a VCF (filter) and a Chorus effect. It has a
lot of modulation capabilities which are all real-time and MIDI
controllable. It does, however, have the typical brittle digital sound
quality usually associated with digital sound modules, but it still makes nice pads, punchy bass and cool filter swept
leads and works great for background synth sounds.

The Vintage Keys Plus was released in 1994. This model doubled the internal
ROM size to 16 MB of sampled sounds. Memory patches were also increased to 512 slots.
Original Vintage Keys models could be upgraded to match the Plus version using
E-mu’s 8 MB Expander Kit.

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